Consultants

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I engage in capacity-building with individuals and groups regarding privilege and what to do with/about it. As a straight, white, middle class, able-bodied, cisgender female of settler descent, I undertake this work in solidarity with, and with accountability to, people who have historically been pushed to the margins. I base this capacity-building on the Coin Model of Privilege and Critical Allyship, which offers a way of understanding and taking action on equity, diversity and inclusion. Informed by Black, Indigenous and other racialized folks, the coin model seeks to translate longstanding ideas about anti-oppression, with a focus on how social structures produce both unearned advantage and disadvantage. It embraces an intersectional approach to understand how systems of inequality (such as sexism, racism and ableism) interact with each other to produce complex patterns of privilege and oppression. Understanding these core concepts informs principles for practicing critical allyship to guide the actions of people in positions of privilege for resisting the unjust structures that produce inequities. This open-access webinar on the coin model demonstrates my approach to capacity-building with groups.